After Lorca was Jack Spicer’s first book of poetry, published by White Rabbit Press in 1957. The first UK printing appeared as a mimeographed edition with Jim Pennington’s Aloes Books from London in 1969. Robin Blaser’s blurb to this edition says: “AFTER LORCA is then the preface to the whole of Spicer’s ensuing poetry. The book proposes a relationship with Garcia Lorca and moves without warning beyond…
American poet Jack Spicer was born in 1925 in Los Angeles, where he graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942 and studied at the University of Redlands from 1943 and 1945. After having worked as a movie extra and private investigator, Spicer moved to Berkeley, where he attended the University of California and started writing and publishing poetry. Together with his friends Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser, Spicer set out to create a new kind of poetry….
American poet Jack Spicer was born in 1925 in Los Angeles, where he graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942 and studied at the University of Redlands from 1943 and 1945. After having worked as a movie extra and private investigator, Spicer moved to Berkeley, where he attended the University…
…No other punk band in the GDR so clearly had a literary lineage. Rosa Extra would often use texts by poets who were friends with the band, thus turning poetry back into song. The musicians’ collaboration with the underground lyricist Bert Papenfuß, beyond Rosa Extra, would develop into an enduring common-law marriage. Papenfuß had an unrivalled gift of transforming the energy of punk rock and the liberal-experimental basic order of post-punk into a well-set chaos of words….
